New Tyler Childers Album Will Be Produced by Rick Rubin
Tyler Childers will have a new album coming out soon, and legendary producer and music guru Rick Rubin will be the man in the control room according to the chairman/CEO of Tyler’s label, RCA Records.
In a blurb in a recent interview with Peter Edge of RCA via HITS Daily Double, Edge spills the beans, “I’m really excited about Tyler Childers’ new album, which is produced by Rick Rubin. He defies expectations, and this new album goes even further. The great thing about Tyler is that he does it the way he wants to do it. He’s playing giant venues, and he’s making the music he wants to make.”
The answer by Peter Edge was to the question of what RCA might have coming up in the “next few months,” which means we might get an announcement and a new single from Childers soon.
Tyler’s first couple of label releases Purgatory (2017) and Country Squire (2019) were produced by Sturgill Simpson. His next releases Long Violent History (2020), Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? (2022) and Rustin’ in the Rain (2023) were produced by Tyler Childers himself with his band The Food Stamps.
Though Childers has emerged as an arena-level artists, he’s yet to match the commercial success of 2017’s Purgatory, which remains one of the most popular titles in all of country music eight years after its release. The album was still in the Top 40 (#37) of the Billboard Country Albums chart last week.
Production hasn’t exactly been the issue with Tyler’s most recent albums, but a lack of new, original songs. Most of his recent albums have included songs he wrote and performed originally many years previous, or cover songs.
Time will tell if Rick Rubin will be able to work his musical magic on Childers. Stay tuned for when more info comes available.
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Editor’s note: An update to this story said that Tyler Childers said from the stage recently that the album would be coming out on June 20th. That was actually the announcement for an opener’s album.
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May 31, 2025 @ 6:06 pm
I’m really hoping we get new songs above all else. Like you pointed out, the production hasn’t been bad, just the lack of new music and songs has been horrible.
May 31, 2025 @ 6:12 pm
This is kind of wild because I said to myself a couple weeks ago that Turnpike Troubadours should get with Rubin and now it Childers whose got em. Amazing.
Excited for what’s to come. Rubin is a beast and brings out the best.
May 31, 2025 @ 6:13 pm
Considering what Childers did to “Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?” in the studio (3x), if there ever was a time to tackle the backlog of concert favorite staples is when a producer like Rubin is at the helm and able to tell Childers, “No!”
Whatever might become of this album, you know it will include a Rick Rubin produced “Nose on the Grindstone”!
June 2, 2025 @ 8:29 am
I’m under the personal impression artistic wise Sturgill Simpson can do no wrong…… except produce Tyler Childers albums. Hoping this one brings him back around to the forefront and not based around the copious amount of offbeat albums hes put out lately.
June 3, 2025 @ 6:59 am
Except Tyler’s two most commercially successful albums were produced by………..Sturgill Simpson.
June 12, 2025 @ 5:42 am
Nailed “Nose on the Grindstone.” That’s a song Rubin couldn’t pass up. Switched out “fucked up” for “messed up” which Childers has been doing in concert of late. The opposite of the recently Strait article.
Snipe Hunt is the title of the album. It’s another long time concert favorite. This does seem to be a greatest hits of Childers concert hits.
May 31, 2025 @ 6:15 pm
Rick does a really good job of convincing artists to record the right songs (Johnny Cash initially wanted no part of recording Hurt or Rusty Cage for example). He also does a good job of knowing when songs need to be stripped down. He’s not without his problems, but he might be just what Tyler needs right now to get back on track. Excited!
May 31, 2025 @ 6:25 pm
Red Hot Childers Peppers
June 1, 2025 @ 10:15 am
Spelling on point, so I lol-ed.
Sticky scar tissue.
May 31, 2025 @ 6:50 pm
Tom Petty’s Wildflowers. His best album. Produced by Rick Rubin. I believe Johnny Cash had been dropped by his lable when Rubin decided to do all those albums with him–the best of which was an album with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers backing him. I’m going to hope for the best here.
May 31, 2025 @ 6:53 pm
This seems like an ambitious move for a potential crossover on Childers’s part. Rubin’s production discography includes some of the biggest names in music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin_production_discography
June 1, 2025 @ 10:37 pm
I think most of us are well aware who Rick Rubin is.
June 2, 2025 @ 3:48 pm
Thanks for the link – some people I wouldn’t think to look ’em up on Wiki – I learned a LOT!
May 31, 2025 @ 7:17 pm
Haven’t enjoyed a Childers album since Country Squire and haven’t truly loved a Childers album since Purgatory. Hopefully Rick Rubin brings out the best in him.
Considering he produced those great Cash records and Tom Petty’s Wildflowers (top 5 all time album) I’m excited. Now I’m gonna go listen to “Honey Bee” by Tom Petty again.
June 8, 2025 @ 7:40 pm
Huge Petty fan & loved Wildflowers.
Your mention of Honey Bee scares me because I have absolutely no recollection of it. Going to give a listen now. Gettin’ up in years but I listened to that album at least 25 times.
May 31, 2025 @ 7:20 pm
Rubin obviously has some classics under his belt, I just hope he doesn’t do to Childers what he did to The Avett Brothers. I don’t necessarily hate everything he’s produced for the Avetts, but their overall Rubin-helmed body of work has been far from a net positive. The well of artistic growth started drying up years ago, at least as far as studio albums are concerned.
June 1, 2025 @ 12:09 pm
Same, while I want to he optimistic on how this will go based on Rubins overall work, I don’t want it to go the Avetts way
May 31, 2025 @ 8:21 pm
Huge fan of this move.
He needs some juice in the studio. His live show has not suffered from the recent studio staleness, but Rick won’t hesitate to call him on what he’s hearing in the booth.
June 1, 2025 @ 5:27 am
This is fantastic news. Way too much complaining about how he doesn’t do this and that and I have not liked his stuff since he quit coke and so on. We don’t always get as many tunes as we want, but I just saw him live and it was banger after banger and his craft is so much more refined than it was a few years ago. In my humblest of opinions, he is the king right now.
Rubin has made some absolutely legendary albums and his vision for recording tunes is killer. I can’t wait for this release!!!!
June 1, 2025 @ 6:06 am
From Run DMC to Slayer to Tyler Childers…wow!
June 1, 2025 @ 6:15 am
Rubin has been hit and miss. Obviously the Johnny Cash recordings were a hit, but he has produced some bombs as well. Childers seems determined to take what was a surprising success story and throw it away with passion projects and weak albums. He’s been living off a name recognition from an album that is now 8 years old.
Match made in heaven, or the next disappointment? Guess we’ll find out soon.
June 1, 2025 @ 7:28 am
“He’s been living off a name recognition from an album that is now 8 years old.”
Ignorant statement. I pulled up Childers last 4 setlists, of the 21 songs played in concert, only 4 are from Purgatory. 4. The album you claim he’s been living off of for 8 years, he’s only playing 4 songs off of to sold out arenas.
I’ve said this before, Childers, like the Grateful Dead, isn’t a recording artist. Some of his best songs that sell out arenas have never been properly recorded. And may never be properly recorded. I think that’s strategic on his part.
June 2, 2025 @ 5:58 am
I’m not talking about his setlist, I’m talking about his status as a headlining artist. Childers broke out of anonymity with the release of Purgatory. He followed up with what I consider a good second album, but which many considered a let down. Since then he has released an album of himself trying to learn the fiddle with a political statement attached to it, a gospel album with multiple versions of a couple songs, and a album that was decidedly a let down.
Yes he continues to draw live audiences, but does that happen without the success of that 8 year old album? And will it continue with if he keeps releasing duds?
June 3, 2025 @ 3:01 pm
I just saw him this week at a sold-out 10 K-seat amphitheater. It’s the first time I’ve seen him since he blew up and moved out of playing clubs. The production level of his show, now with the lights, second stage, and visuals, is pretty impressive. I didn’t see anyone leaving disappointed about the studio “duds” he’d been releasing. Granted, none of his albums have resonated with me the way Purgatory did, but it’s gonna be hard to when you release your magnum opus right out of the gates.
June 1, 2025 @ 7:00 am
Turnpike needed Rubin over Shooter.
Good for Tyler.
June 1, 2025 @ 9:27 am
Sobriety giveth, sobriety taketh
June 1, 2025 @ 10:56 am
I just hope it’ll be more than 6 songs
June 1, 2025 @ 12:52 pm
Don’t be stoked about this yall,
June 1, 2025 @ 2:56 pm
We won’t get another Purgatory, but Rick can bring back a lot of what Tyler has been missing. I hope he’s successful because I think the last few years of musical output from all country artists has been pretty uninspiring.
June 1, 2025 @ 4:41 pm
Semi-warm take: If you just listen to the hallelujah version of Can I take my Hounds to Heaven, it’s a pretty decent album. Moreso than Rustin’ in the Rain, I return to the songs on that album.
June 1, 2025 @ 5:15 pm
Hopefully the Rubin connection finally throws us a rope to get us out of Purgatory and into Heaven without them hounds
🙂
June 1, 2025 @ 5:51 pm
Rubin is a snake oil salesman. Good luck Tyler.
June 1, 2025 @ 6:14 pm
Hate this for him. He let the Avett Bros follow all of their worst impulses.
June 4, 2025 @ 2:35 pm
Same with Marcus King. In what world was a it a good idea to encourage one of this generation’s greatest blues/rock guitar players to softly strum acoustic while crooning love songs over a drum machine for the entire length of an album?
I have it on good authority (from somebody in a band produced by Rubin a couple decades back) that Rubin barely spends time in the studio with artists, basically letting them do what they want with the studio engineers. The days of Rubin being there physically, pushing artists to get their best out on tape seems to be long gone.
June 8, 2025 @ 7:52 pm
X2 with Marcus King!
June 1, 2025 @ 8:01 pm
Hoping this works out but, if it doesn’t, maybe he’ll go back to Sturgill. It wasn’t broken and never needed to be fixed.
June 1, 2025 @ 10:19 pm
Out June 20.
June 1, 2025 @ 11:05 pm
My guess is we’ll get something official in the next few days, if not Monday morning. Quick turnaround time here.
June 2, 2025 @ 9:49 am
So apparently that quote about the June 20th release date was misheard. Tyler might have been talking about an album from one of the openers.
The story has been updated.
June 2, 2025 @ 7:35 am
Hopefully, it will be an improvement on his last couple of albums. I have liked a few of his tracks over the years but he has yet to convince me. Rick Rubin producing could be a good move for him. I hope so. I will give it a listen.
June 2, 2025 @ 7:52 am
Rick Rubin produced Marcus King’s last album from 2024 and it was an incredibly boring, aimless, and tedious album – by far the worst album King’s ever done – so, my hopes aren’t high here. Rubin’s track record hasn’t been very good for years (decades?) – neither has Childers’. I’m starting to think the quality and impact of Purgatory was a fluke.
June 2, 2025 @ 10:22 am
Terrible album.
Just listen to the retarded drum track on the title track, Mood Swings.
June 2, 2025 @ 2:22 pm
This should be good. I wish he would just get in the studio get Dave Cobb and record something great. I am optimistic though. I will agree with others. Tyler leave a distinct impression live. He is overdue for a good produced album to capture his magic.
June 2, 2025 @ 6:14 pm
Marcus Kings Mood Swings produced by Rick Rubin was a major disappointment, so I am not holding my breath on this one. Hope I’m wrong.
June 4, 2025 @ 7:42 am
I think I’m the only person on Earth who really liked Rustin’ in the Rain. Is it Purgatory? No, but it’s still a really solid, albeit short, album that I find myself playing in my head pretty regularly.
June 4, 2025 @ 8:13 am
I think “Rustin’ in the Rain” was definitely a step in the right direction, and hopefully shows that Childers feels he needs to take the recording process a bit more seriously if he wants to sustain his headliner status. That’s also hopefully the idea of working with Rick Rubin.
June 5, 2025 @ 9:29 am
My favorite Tom Petty solo album is “Wildflowers” and was produced by Rick Rubin. Coincidentally (or I just started taking notice), tracks from “Wildflowers” have been popping up on my playlists inspiring me to take a deeper dive into that album. I think this is the album that Rubin might try to model a Tyler Childers album, especially the re-released “Wildflowers & the Rest” bonus tracks.
June 11, 2025 @ 4:58 am
Just like Childers did his last three album roll outs, we got a snippet of a music video on social media 5 hours ago and the promise of the whole music video tomorrow at 8 am. By the clues in the video, the first single is a proper studio version of concert staple and fan favorite, “Oneida,” a song that predates Purgatory.
https://youtu.be/xBoQfiJEqj8?si=Teaz1gEoXErMAKS6